Mom Reunites With Taken Son After 21 Years

More than 21 years after he was abducted, Maria Mancia was reunited with her son Thursday in California. When Steve Hernandez’s father ran off with him as as a baby, all but one blurry photo was left with her. He was 18 months old. In 1995, Hernandez’s father took him to Mexico, where he is now a law student. The father had told him his mother abandoned him. Earlier this year, investigators located him and performed DNA testing, confirming the link. “It was a shock,” Hernandez told the San Bernardino Sun. “I didn’t know if she was alive or not and to get a call that says they found my mother and that she had been looking for me, it was like a cold bucket of water. But it’s good. It’s good.” Officials have said the father, Valentin Hernandez, is missing and likely dead.